May 2024 SUP trip on the Sandy River in Maine.
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The Rangeley Lakes area is definitely special. With a long history of outdoor recreation and a wide variety of ways to enjoy the land, paddling is just one of the great things to do in the area.
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The Sandy River flows for 73 miles from the Sandy River Ponds out near Rangeley, to the Kennebec River in Norridgewock. One of its best know features is Smalls Falls, a series of gorgeous waterfalls with vertical drops and the site of Smalls to the Wall, a steep creek paddling race held annually in the spring.
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Trish and I first paddled the Belgrade Stream about six years ago and did the complete journey from Belgrade Lakes Village to Messalonskee Lake. That fun journey takes you down Long Pond, includes a portage over Wings Mills Dam and spills you into Messalonskee at Route 27 near Hammond Lumber.
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In the summer I work for a local company called Native Notions doing landscape construction. It’s tough work, but one of the perks is that we’re all paddlers and at the end of each season we take a paddling trip. This year we spent four days exploring Allagash Lake, which isn’t all that big. Because we wouldn’t be paddling miles and miles each day, we got plenty of time to unwind and relax in what is probably the quietest place I’ve ever been in my life.
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Trish grew up racing Lasers in Canada and her dad still had three of their sailboats in storage up on Grand Manan. For a couple years we’d been dropping hints about how great it would be to have them down here in Belgrade Lakes. Well it finally happened. We’ve had the boats the better part of a year and finally got one of them rigged to sail.
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We get out on Long Pond about 4-5 times a week. It’s definitely our favorite of all the lakes in the Belgrade Lakes region, but we’re bias because that’s where we live. Today we opted to paddle south of Castle Island out to the Kettle Hole pond behind Lake Ridge Road. It’s a cool are only accessible by paddle craft.
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Trish is currently working with two clients on Echo Lake in the Fayette, Readfield, Mount Vernon area. It spans over 1,100 acres and is sometimes called Crotched Lake due to its shape. We launched at the public boat launch on the North end of the lake, across from the ‘smokestack’ and just below the dam that separates it from Taylor Pond.
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Trish is a real estate agent with Lakepoint Real Estate in Belgrade Lakes. Today, she had a showing on Torsey Lake in Readfield and Mount Vernon so we took the opportunity to paddle the lake and see all it had to offer. We arrived early and since the property is waterfront, I carried or equipment down and paddled around for awhile until she was finished. We paddled the Esquif Avalon today - of all the canoes we own, it’s my favorite tandem canoe.
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Brewster Academy is a private boarding school in the Wolfeboro, New Hampshire area and sits on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee, the biggest freshwater body of water in the state. In the summer months Brewster Academy offers adventure programming to their visiting students.
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This marks my 3rd course in Portland Maine and my sixteenth course overall. Not bad considering I usually offer only 2-3 courses per season. Last year this course was full with 8.
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I returned to Cape Cod this year to train SUP Instructors for Mike at Rideaway Adventures. Rideaway is an awesome paddle sports outfitter in the Cape with multiple locations, serving paddlers and bikers with classes, tours and rentals.
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50 mile scout trip - complete!
On Tuesday May 14th, Peter Sawtell and myself parked our truck at Northwood Meadows State Park in Northwood, New Hampshire, unloaded gear and headed out with the intent of following the Lamprey River all the way to saltwater.
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This spring is shaping up to be a busy season on the water and I'm really excited to be working with Peter Sawtell of Seven Rivers Padding. Today we partnered up and led a canoeing skills & leadership workshop for students in the Tufts University adventure program.
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The Allagash Wilderness Waterway is a 92-mile stretch of lakes, ponds and rivers flowing North through the Maine woods. It was established back in 1970 as one of the countries first Wild & Scenic Rivers and remains as Maine's only federally designated Wild & Scenic river today.
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Recently I had the pleasure of working with Peter Sawtell of Seven Rivers Paddling to manage risk and safety on the paddling sections of Untamed New England, an iconic adventure race that took place on the New Hampshire Seacoast this year.
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Portland Maine is a wonderful paddling destination. This year I once again ran a Level 1-2 American Canoe Association SUP Instructor Certification Workshop in Portland. Nine instructor candidates, myself and an assistant spent June 8-10 on Portland's East End completely geeking out on standup paddleboarding.
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I've written blog posts about Black Canyon in the past. I don't always say a lot, but the fact that I keep on returning to this incredible paddling destination pretty much says it all.
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This group was no different and I've already spent time paddling with some of them. We had a pretty intense session over three full days with some very skilled and knowledgeable personalities. Group learning at its best!
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This is the 2nd year I've travelled up to Acadia SUP in beautiful Bar Harbor, Maine to run an ACA SUP ICW with Chris Strout, owner of Acadia SUP. He runs a great operation on the edge of Acadia National Park and is focused on quality instruction and safety.
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